I will not discuss the actual creation of  the HTML (HyperText Markup Language) coding which is the language the browsers read. To view and edit the HTML codes themselves, you should use a very simple wordprocessor (Notepad, Wordpad, Simpletext) which will not add extra codes of its own to your work. It is tricky to try to use today's more advanced wordprocessors to edit HTML because they want to act as browsers and read the codes as codes rather than as part of the text. Moreover, they will add their own codes to any such page. On the other hand, they often include a feature that allows you to convert a wordprocessed page into a webpage.

These days there are excellent WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors which insert the codes for you.  Netscape Composer and the latest versions of Microsoft Word and WordPerfect are all WYSIWIG editors; they can open an HTML document and allow you to edit and save it without ever having to examine the codes. Some editors are quite limited in what they can accomplish; others insert codes so that only a particular browser (e.g. Microsoft Editor) can read the page as you intended. Netscape Composer, while it has some limitations, allows you to create a page that will be accessible by most browsers.
 

The web-authoring tools I will include are
 

• Netscape Composer (included in your Netscape Communicator package), for an easy, polished page.
• WordPerfect 8 (networked on CLAS campus computers), for converting wordprocessed documents to web pages and back again.
• Notepad (or whatever is the most basic word-processing program available), for editing or composing HTML documents.
• FTP publishing of your document to your Grove account.